Vorssaint setup, explained.

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Vorssaint is a free, open source Mac app that lives in your menu bar and replaces a whole shelf of paid utilities. One icon gives you a volume mixer, a real system monitor, a better window switcher, clipboard history, and an app uninstaller, with no account and no telemetry anywhere in it. It picked up two thousand five hundred thirty stars in a single day on GitHub's trending page, on top of more than ten thousand since it launched just ten weeks ago. Here's how to set it up. If you already have Homebrew installed, one command does it: brew install, dash dash cask, vorssaint. That's it, done in about two minutes. If you'd rather not use Homebrew, download the signed disk image from the releases page on GitHub and drag Vorssaint into your Applications folder, the same way any other Mac app installs. On first launch, you'll get three one click bundles to choose from, Essentials, Windows, or Battery and quiet, or you can pick individual features one at a time from a visual picker. The app only asks for the permissions those specific choices actually need. If you want to inspect the code first or build it yourself, clone the repository with git, move into the folder, and run the build script with the install flag, that compiles it, signs the bundle, and installs it into Applications automatically. All you need is Xcode command line tools. A few things worth knowing before you rely on it daily. It only runs on Apple Silicon with macOS 14 Sonoma or newer, there is no Intel build. The project is barely three months old, so give it some time in the field before replacing a workflow you depend on. And some of the best features, the switcher and window snapping, need Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions, which are broad asks for any menu bar app, so read what each one unlocks before you accept. If you ever want it gone completely, brew uninstall dash dash cask vorssaint, then run the uninstall script in the Tools folder, and it wipes every setting and permission grant along with the app. That is the setup.